Solar Parking Lots represents sustainability, jobs and economic recovery in every community across our country.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

I've
checked my large chain store parking lot figures for North Carolina
against the Dun & Bradstreet database that ESRI's ArcGIS Business
Analyst Online uses and the total has grown... to 2326.

I'm working up a website (have to enter one in the NC State Fair for an assignment due Feb 23rd) so I'll be busy with that these next two weeks. Then it's mapping them all out by county. Then on to doing the actual calculations for the solar arrays (yes, per parking lot!).

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I believe in renewable energy, specifically solar --- for parking lots. I'd rather be star mapping but someone has to do something about all those darn slabs that take tons of fossil fuel to create (the cement and/or asphalt), increase the imperviousness which in turn increases runoff & pollution in our watersheds, heat up the atmosphere, and prevent barefoot strolling on hot days! Tuned into spatial analysis and am building on the computer skills I began in the Air Force (database administrator, mainframes, base support computer, had that response time down to 1.5 seconds! And we had to seriously balance the i/o's on those platters! (oops, am I showing my age here?)). Covering all that paved parking area with photovoltaic panels will generate enough electricity for each community. Let's change those net metering laws, subsidize solar energy rather than the outdated gasoline automobile makers, put some solar arrays lids on all our parking lots, and start slamming amps through our engines! Charge up that spiffy EV at work! And keep some gradient in in our atmosphere, darn it. Ah, to go barefoot again on a stroll across the community....

I also am working on getting the recycling laws changed (and enforced)
here in NC. Trash Call is the name of that project which is on the back burner due to lack of time, and the funds to make time. But check out that blog for an interesting, albeit short, read. Trash Call was to get started with a mobile phone app used by folks to identify which bus stops needed recycling bins; after all, it isillegal for plastic bottles to enter the main waste stream. The app will be named Trash Callerz. Again, time and funds. Hopefully this will be a GIS Master's project for me soon.

Green Bagging It was to be the non-profit that came from Trash Call and would be dedicated to raising
awareness of the spatial impacts of recyclable material to
provide the NC prisoners with re-usable bags.